POD OF JAKE

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Dec 10, 2020 • 58min

#29 - IYINOLUWA "E" ABOYEJI

E is an entrepreneur in the public interest and the co-founder of Future Africa, a platform that provides capital, coaching, and community for mission-driven innovators building a better future for Africa. One of the most successful young entrepreneurs in Africa, he was previously the co-founder & CEO of Flutterwave, one of the largest financial technology startups in Africa with investments from Y Combinator, Greycroft, and many others. Prior to Flutterwave, E was co-founder & CEO of Andela, Africa's largest engineering organization which received investment from Mark Zuckerberg and Google Ventures, among others. He recently served as the Deputy Director General for Madam Oby Ezekwesili’s 2019 Presidential Campaign. Future Africa manages a rolling fund which is currently open for investment.  -- Thank you for listening to Pod of Jake! All shares and reviews are appreciated! If you enjoy this podcast, you might like reading blogofjake.com If you prefer listening over reading, you might prefer Blog of Jake's blog on tape, available through any of your favorite podcast providers. Website: podofjake.com Twitter: @blogofjake Email: jake@blogofjake.com Call: superpeer.com/jake Support: patreon.com/blogofjake Bitcoin: 3ESGQxrJZmGqd2SifqCUiHPvah1uWtN1Zd Ethereum: blogofjake.eth 0xF89aCC1f8c4FeEAc372997006BfE7c0fdD99F80c Bitcoin Cash: qznma8vxf8kjn4v9phsfkhzd0559gm7yfsx0gkl4sf
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Dec 8, 2020 • 53min

#28 - ERIK VOORHEES

Erik is the Founder & CEO of ShapeShift, a self-custody crypto platform. He has been one of the most influential individuals in the crypto space since soon after he first discovered Bitcoin in 2011 and became one of its earliest advocates. Previously, Erik launched SatoshiDICE in 2012 which allowed players to bet on the roll of a dice using bitcoin. In 2013, the company was sold for 126,315 BTC, worth around $11.5 million at the time but over $2 billion today. It was the first major acquisition of a company in the crypto space. Erik also co-founded Coinapult and headed marketing efforts for BitInstant, among other contributions which have helped the industry evolve. -- Thank you for listening to Pod of Jake! All shares and reviews are appreciated! If you enjoy this podcast, you might like reading blogofjake.com If you prefer listening over reading, you might prefer Blog of Jake's blog on tape, available through any of your favorite podcast providers. Website: podofjake.com Twitter: @blogofjake Email: jake@blogofjake.com Call: superpeer.com/jake Support: patreon.com/blogofjake Bitcoin: 3ESGQxrJZmGqd2SifqCUiHPvah1uWtN1Zd Ethereum: blogofjake.eth 0xF89aCC1f8c4FeEAc372997006BfE7c0fdD99F80c Bitcoin Cash: qznma8vxf8kjn4v9phsfkhzd0559gm7yfsx0gkl4sf
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Dec 3, 2020 • 50min

#27 - ERIC JORGENSON

Eric is a product strategist and writer. He is the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, a guide to wealth and happiness. In 2011, Eric joined the founding team of Zaarly, a company dedicated to helping homeowners find accountable service providers they can trust. His business blog, Evergreen, educates and entertains more than one million readers. Eric is also the creator of Course Correctly where he writes independent, unbiased reviews of online courses intended for knowledge workers to help enable anyone with internet access to build knowledge, skills, and careers. Eric's Website: https://www.ejorgenson.com/ Eric's Online Course (on Leverage): https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage -- Thank you for listening to Pod of Jake! All shares and reviews are appreciated! If you enjoy this podcast, you might like reading blogofjake.com If you prefer listening over reading, you might prefer Blog of Jake's blog on tape, available through any of your favorite podcast providers. Website: podofjake.com Twitter: @blogofjake Email: jake@blogofjake.com Call: superpeer.com/jake Support: patreon.com/blogofjake Bitcoin: 3ESGQxrJZmGqd2SifqCUiHPvah1uWtN1Zd Ethereum: blogofjake.eth 0xF89aCC1f8c4FeEAc372997006BfE7c0fdD99F80c Bitcoin Cash: qznma8vxf8kjn4v9phsfkhzd0559gm7yfsx0gkl4sf
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Dec 1, 2020 • 55min

#26 - JUDE GOMILA

Jude is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and the Founder & CEO of Golden. Golden is on a mission to map out human knowledge and it is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Giga Fund, and others. Prior to Golden, Jude co-founded and spent several year working on Heyzap, a mobile advertising platform which was acquired by Fyber in 2016. Since making his first angel investment in 2010, Jude has made over 200 early stage investments including Carta, Gusto, Airtable, Boom, Superhuman, Mercury, Calm, Relativity Space, Ironclad, Astra, Benchling, Ginkgo Bioworks, Linear and many more. He recently launched a rolling fund through which he will continue investing in startups. -- Thank you for listening to Pod of Jake! All shares and reviews are appreciated! If you enjoy this podcast, you might like reading blogofjake.com If you prefer listening over reading, you might prefer Blog of Jake's blog on tape, available through any of your favorite podcast providers. Website: podofjake.com Twitter: @blogofjake Email: jake@blogofjake.com Call: superpeer.com/jake Support: patreon.com/blogofjake Bitcoin: 3ESGQxrJZmGqd2SifqCUiHPvah1uWtN1Zd Ethereum: blogofjake.eth 0xF89aCC1f8c4FeEAc372997006BfE7c0fdD99F80c Bitcoin Cash: qznma8vxf8kjn4v9phsfkhzd0559gm7yfsx0gkl4sf
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Nov 24, 2020 • 1h 14min

#25 - NIKIL VISWANATHAN

Nikil is the co-founder and CEO of Alchemy, the world's leading blockchain developer platform powering over $7.5 billion dollars in transactions in 99% of countries in the world. Alchemy's impressive list of investors includes Stanford University, Coinbase, the Google Chairman, Charles Schwab, and the founders and execs of Charles Schwab, Linkedin, Paypal, Yahoo, Dropbox, NYSE, and many more. Nikil was honored as one of Forbes 30 Under 30, received his BS & MS in Computer Science at Stanford, and formerly did product management at Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. A serial entrepreneur, he co-created Down To Lunch, which was once the #1 social app in the world. Nikil has been featured in numerous global media outlets including the New York Times, Forbes, NBC, Business Insider, and TechCrunch. -- Thank you for listening to Pod of Jake! All shares and reviews are appreciated! If you enjoy this podcast, you might like reading blogofjake.com If you prefer listening over reading, you might prefer Blog of Jake's blog on tape, available through any of your favorite podcast providers. Website: podofjake.com Twitter: @blogofjake Email: jake@blogofjake.com Call: superpeer.com/jake Support: patreon.com/blogofjake Bitcoin: 3ESGQxrJZmGqd2SifqCUiHPvah1uWtN1Zd Bitcoin Cash: qznma8vxf8kjn4v9phsfkhzd0559gm7yfsx0gkl4sf
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Nov 19, 2020 • 1h 3min

#24 - ELI DOURADO

Eli is an economist, regulatory hacker, and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. Before joining CGO, he spent a couple of years as the Head of Global Policy at Boom, a company building supersonic passenger airplanes. Eli previously served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Director of its Technology Policy Program. He earned a PhD in Economics from George Mason University. Eli built an election tracker for the 2020 US Presidential Election which can be seen along with some of his writing, research, and code at elidourado.com.  -- Thank you for listening to Pod of Jake! All shares and reviews are appreciated! If you enjoy this podcast, you might like reading blogofjake.com If you prefer listening over reading, you might prefer Blog of Jake's blog on tape, available through any of your favorite podcast providers. Website: podofjake.com Twitter: @blogofjake Email: jake@blogofjake.com Call: superpeer.com/jake Support: patreon.com/blogofjake Bitcoin: 3ESGQxrJZmGqd2SifqCUiHPvah1uWtN1Zd Bitcoin Cash: qznma8vxf8kjn4v9phsfkhzd0559gm7yfsx0gkl4sf
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Nov 17, 2020 • 56min

#23 - ISABELLE BOEMEKE

Isabelle is a nuclear energy influencer and fashion model. She grew up in Brazil before finding her way to the USA and discovering her love for science. Isabelle found her cause in the climate crisis and has transformed herself into an innovative and effective advocate of nuclear energy. She produces educational and entertaining content about nuclear energy in formats which have proven successful for more traditional influencers on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter. See some of Isabelle's work and learn more about nuclear energy on her website at i-sodope.com -- Thank you for listening to Pod of Jake! All shares and reviews are appreciated! If you enjoy this podcast, you might like reading blogofjake.com If you prefer listening over reading, you might prefer Blog of Jake's blog on tape, available through any of your favorite podcast providers. Website: podofjake.com Twitter: @blogofjake Email: jake@blogofjake.com Call: superpeer.com/jake Support: patreon.com/blogofjake Bitcoin: 3ESGQxrJZmGqd2SifqCUiHPvah1uWtN1Zd Bitcoin Cash: qznma8vxf8kjn4v9phsfkhzd0559gm7yfsx0gkl4sf
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Nov 13, 2020 • 53min

#22 - RONEIL RUMBURG

Roneil is the Co-founder & CEO of Audius, a music streaming and sharing platform that uses blockchain technology to put the power back into the hands of content creators. Audius has over 40,000 artists on its platform and more than 1 million monthly listeners. World-renowned artists on Audius include 3LAU, deadmau5, RAC, Zeds Dead, Skrillex, and many more. Prior to Audius, Roneil co-founded Kleiner Perkins’ early-stage seed fund, KPCB Edge. At Kleiner Perkins, Roneil was responsible for seed investments into Blockchain and AI companies, including Lightning Labs. Before that, he co-founded a Bitcoin peer-to-peer payment company called Backslash. Roneil attended Stanford University where he first began mining cryptocurrencies in late 2012. -- Thank you for listening to Pod of Jake! All shares and reviews are appreciated! If you enjoy this podcast, you might like reading blogofjake.com If you prefer listening over reading, you might prefer Blog of Jake's blog on tape, available through any of your favorite podcast providers. Website: podofjake.com Twitter: @blogofjake Email: jake@blogofjake.com Call: superpeer.com/jake Support: patreon.com/blogofjake Bitcoin: 3ESGQxrJZmGqd2SifqCUiHPvah1uWtN1Zd Bitcoin Cash: qznma8vxf8kjn4v9phsfkhzd0559gm7yfsx0gkl4sf
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Nov 10, 2020 • 57min

#21 - ALEX MASMEJ

Alex is the creator of $ALEX, the first ever Ethereum personal token sale, which raised $20,000 in only 100 hours. He has previously founded two communities, Marketing DAO, the unofficial Ethereum decentralized marketing agency, and the Undercollaterized DeFi Alliance, a think tank-style group aiming to brainstorm around DeFi lending, identity and unsecured lending. Alex also founded Rocket to provide loans against NFTs. He is a member of the Ethereum ecosystem, MetaCartel DAO, a bottom-up ecosystem of builders. Alex is currently living in Launch House, a hacker / hype house of creators, entrepreneurs, and influencers in Tulum, Mexico. -- Thank you for listening to Pod of Jake! All shares and reviews are appreciated! If you enjoy this podcast, you might like reading blogofjake.com If you prefer listening over reading, you might prefer Blog of Jake's blog on tape, available through any of your favorite podcast providers. Website: podofjake.com Twitter: @blogofjake Email: jake@blogofjake.com Call: superpeer.com/jake Support: patreon.com/blogofjake Bitcoin: 3ESGQxrJZmGqd2SifqCUiHPvah1uWtN1Zd Bitcoin Cash: qznma8vxf8kjn4v9phsfkhzd0559gm7yfsx0gkl4sf
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Nov 5, 2020 • 40min

#20 - ALI SPAGNOLA

Ali is a musician, comedian, and YouTube star with a popular fitness channel called Ali Spagnola's Fitness Outrageous. She has 2.5 million followers on Instagram and over 300,000 subscribers on YouTube. Ali is known for creating outrageous videos and sharing entertaining content with her fans. She has been doing this full-time now for 5 years. Some of Ali's early projects included creating The Power Hour Drinking Game Album and sending Free Paintings to thousands of people. Most recently, Ali has added a focus on fitness. She has been an early adopter of products including Levels, Eight Sleep, Oura, and Whoop. -- Thank you for listening to Pod of Jake! All shares and reviews are appreciated! If you enjoy this podcast, you might like reading blogofjake.com If you prefer listening over reading, you might prefer Blog of Jake's blog on tape, available through any of your favorite podcast providers. Website: podofjake.com Twitter: @blogofjake Email: jake@blogofjake.com Call: superpeer.com/jake Support: patreon.com/blogofjake Bitcoin: 3ESGQxrJZmGqd2SifqCUiHPvah1uWtN1Zd Bitcoin Cash: qznma8vxf8kjn4v9phsfkhzd0559gm7yfsx0gkl4sf

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